The
Net Zero
Energy Fundis a new Net Zero Energy fund now being
created that seeks to be a leader in providing capital for the biggest thing to come along in the energy
industry since the invention of energy - "Net
Zero Energy."

Homeowners, Business Owners and Commercial Building Owners;
the Net Zero Energy "Mandate" has already been implemented in
Austin, Texas.

California requires all new homes and commercial buildings to be built
to
the "Net Zero Energy" standard by 2020 and 50% of all commercial
buildings
in California must be retrofitted to NZE by 2030!

The
U.S. Army now has a Net Zero
Energy initiative to help reduce/eliminate America's
use of foreign oil - particularly oil from muslim/middle-east countries
- which saves the lives of our brave soldiers in the
military.

Solar
Trigenerationsm
Energy Systems Provide All of the Cooling, Heating &
Power, for Any Size Building, with only the Energy of the Sun. Solar
Trigenerationsm Energy Systems Provide Simultaneous
Cooling, Heating & Power whether it is 12 Noon, or 12 Midnight,
and WITHOUT having to rely on the electric grid!

The
Department of Energy developed the
Commercial Building Initiative (CBI) and is pursuing the goal of
marketable Net Zero
Energy Building through research and partnerships.

The DOE's
CBI has developed tools and resources to help the commercial buildings
industry improve energy efficiency at various levels of energy savings.

Revenue from net-zero energy buildings will grow rapidly over the next 20 years, reaching almost $690 billion
by 2020 and nearly $1.3 trillion by 2035, projects Pike Research. That's a compound annual growth rate of 43%.

Americans
spend more than $400 billion every year for electricity and natural gas for our homes and commercial buildings, consuming more than 70% of all
the electricity used in the United States, which is about 40% of our nation's total energy
bill. This also contributes almost 40% of the nation's carbon dioxide
emissions.

By
standardizing on Net Zero
Energyand
upgrading existing commercial buildings to Net Zero
Energy, the USA increases energy efficiency
and reduces the purchases of energy from all sources, both foreign and domestic.

These
harmful emissions are generated from the combustion of fossil fuels, which cause acid rain,
haze, smog and cause breathing/respiratory problems for thousands of people. By
increasing the energy efficiency of our country's homes and commercial buildings,
we reduce these harmful emissions while reducing our monthly utility and
transportation expenses. Imagine, never again receiving a monthly bill from your
electric power or natural gas utility company! Having a Net Zero
Energyhome
or business can do that, or provide the option to "cut the cord" to
the electric company in the future.

The USA is still dependent on
foreign oil. Each day, the USA shifts the wealth of Americans, to foreign
countries and foreign jobs. With oil at $100/bbl, Americans send about
$1.3 billion for the foreign oil we buy which adds up to almost $1/2 trillion
every year. And that's also costing America thousands of jobs.
Net Zero
Energy will help America become energy independent,
create thousands of jobs in the USA and reduce our dependence on foreign oil
from insecure sources and from countries that do not agree with our country's
leadership or policies.

Building
(and upgrading) homes and commercial buildings to Net Zero
Energywith
less reduces the problems relating to an old, inefficient electric power grid.
Increased Net Zero
Energy homes and commercial
buildings also saves the need for building new central power plants running on
fossil fuels, that are still highly inefficient at no more than 50%
efficient.

Net Zero
Energy homes and commercial
buildings can look like any other residential home, hospital, school or
commercial office building, they do NOT have to be ugly or modern in appearance
to be Net Zero
Energy!

And,
your present home or commercial building can be updated to Net Zero
Energy.

The US Army announced (April 19, 2012) the locations for 8 new
Army facilities that will be pilot
Net Zero Energy installations. As part of the Army’s overall effort to conserve
resources, net zero
energy installations will consume only as much energy (as well as water -
"Net
Zero Water") - as they produce and eliminate solid waste to landfills.

The announcement initiates the programmatic environmental analysis and planning process for the Army’s Net Zero
Energy and Net Zero Water Installation Strategy.

The
U.S. Army has identified 6 new Net Zero Energy pilot installations that will be
built as Net Zero Energy facilities plus 2 other installations
that will be Net Zero Energy and Net Zero Water - all to be built and online by 2020.

The U.S. Army's definition of "net zero energy" is similar to that of
the industry, which is a home, building or facility "generates as much energy on site as it uses, over the course of a year."

The Army’s pilot net zero energy installations
are located at the following U.S. Army's installations:

Fort
Detrick, Md.;

Fort Hunter
Liggett, Calif.;

Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands;

Parks Reserve Forces Training Area, Calif.;

Sierra Army Depot, Calif.;

West Point, N.Y.

Additionally, the Oregon Army National Guard volunteered to pilot a unique
as well as challenging Net Zero Energy Initiative, which includes all of their installations across the state.
Their strategy will be included in the environmental analysis.

The
founder of the Renewable Energy Institute (REI) was first involved in Net Zero
Energy buildings and Solar
Trigenerationsm
energy system in 2001
- 2002. This started with family-owned real estate developments in
Northern and Southern California. This interest was accelerated when REI's
founder was introduced to the President of a solar company in Los Angeles and
their client, the Audubon Nature Center at Deb's Park (Los Angeles) that was
planning to build a new 5,000 sf office and conference center. Except, the new
building for the Audubon Nature Center was about 1/2 mile from the end of the
power lines and a very costly extension of the power lines to their new facility
forced them to consider a solar solution. When the Audubon Nature Center's new
5,000 sf office and conference center was completed in 2003, the facility not
only featured the Solar
Trigenerationsmenergy
system - they were awarded one of the first Platinum LEED Awards by the USGBC -
and the powerlines were still 1/2 mile away! To this day, 100% of the power and
energy for the Audubon Nature Center's building is supplied by the Solar
Trigenerationsm
energy system - whether at 12 noon, or 12 midnite. (The Audubon's facility
also includes a battery
energy storage
system for back-up power generated by the Rooftop
PV
panels as well as a thermal energy storage system that stores the excess hot
water generated by the evacuated
tube collectors).

These early projects led to more client inquiries and engagements with real
estate developers, architects and building owners in Southern California,
Louisiana and Texas and the advent of a growing Net Zero
Energy industry along with Solar
Cogenerationsm
& Solar
Trigenerationsm
energy systems. This culminated in a family-owned 200
(Net Zero
Energy) home real estate development
in Desert Hot Springs which has been approved but not yet constructed.

During this time, the REI's Founder
became a volunteer and Advisor
to the University of Texas' Solar Decathlon Competition. He coordinated the
donation of the same solar
thermal systemused at the Audubon Nature Center's facility in Los Angeles, for UT's entry in
the 2002 Solar Decathlon Competition in Washington, D.C. UT's entry in the
Solar Decathlon Competition placed 1st in the domestic hot watercompetition
that year (2002) and 4th overall, out of 20 universities that had entered.

In
2006, after Hurricane Kattrina devastated New Orleans, the REI was
formed and several of the
REI's board members and a Professor from the University of Texas School of
Architecture formed a design team to enter the Brad Pitt/Global Green Rebuild New Orleans Competition.
Our entry also focused on sustainable building solutions and materials as well
as the Net Zero
Energy concepts, incorporating once again, a Solar
Trigenerationsm
energy system.

Today,
the REI "Flagship" has chartered the Renewable Energy Institute in
Florida, with discussions to open REI state chapters in Arizona, California,
Hawaii, Minnesota and Oregon.

“spending
hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars every year for oil,
much of it from the Middle East, is just about the single stupidest thing that
modern society could possibly do. It’s very difficult to think of anything
more idiotic than that.”
~ R. James Woolsey, Jr., former
Director of the CIA

According to R. James Woolsey, for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, “The basic insight is to realize that global warming, the geopolitics of oil, and warfare in the Persian Gulf are not separate problems — they are aspects of a single problem, the West’s dependence on oil."